Muslim girl: I’m really emo, but you couldn’t tell from looking at me.
Other girl: Really?
Muslim girl: Yeah, but I don’t cut myself. Well, technically. It depends what you mean by cutting yourself.
University of Toronto
Toronto
Canadia
Archive for the ‘Words’ Category
Happy Hour Starts in 15 Minutes
Professor: Okay, let’s review. What’s it called when you put geological events in sequential order?
Basketball star #1: Calligraphy!
Basketball star #2: Naw dude, that’s writing.
Basketball star #1: Oh yeah…that’s what the Egyptians did, huh?
Basketball star #2: Naw, that’s hieroglyphics, man.
Professor: The answer is “stratigraphy.” Let’s move on quickly.
Geology 101
Mesa, Arizona
Overheard by: YeahKey
Some Meteorologists Get Too Into Their Work
Meathead professor: And they climaxed in August, in all their climactic glory!
Chicago, Illinois
All Communications Majors Believe Perception Is Reality
Sorority girl #1: I may as well go around and sleep with all the people everyone thinks I’m sleeping with…
Sorority girl #2: I would *so* not judge you for that.
Bryant University
Smithfield, Rhode Island
In His Electronic Sepulchre There by the Sea
Girl discussing Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait: It’s just that it seems like he went through and for each word looked in the dictionary for the longest synonym. Or, well, did he use those words back then?
Baltimore School for the Arts
Baltimore, Maryland
…If That’s the Word I Want
Guy #1: That is awesome! Awesome!
Guy #2: Yeah, it would be cool, until you got ectoplasm everywhere.
Concordia University
River Forest, Illinois
Overheard by: That would be messy.
Or Reject Gender Stratification
Five-year boy in front of a door: (frantically) Which one? I have to go!
Exasperated mother: The men’s room.
Little boy: Which one?!
Mother: That one (points) and that’s why you need to learn to read.
Barnes & Noble
Cary, North Carolina
Might Be Time to Block Cinemax, Mom
Little girl to popsicle: And then I’m going to lick you and suck on you until you melt all over me.
Concerned mother: Kelly! I told you not to talk to popsicles!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/347772608/that-one-is-going-to-be-a-handful.html
Overheard by: Ian
Your Assignment: Write a Children’s Story around Those Three Key Words
Professor: The researchers were trying to see whether or not subjects would react to taboo words. Of course, this was in 1940, so the words they used were things like ‘whore,’ ‘penis,’ and ‘Kotex.’
Widener University
Chester, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: I heart grad school
Yes. Yes I Have.
Girl #1: What are those dots underneath the sign?
Girl #2: You’re so dumb, haven’t you heard of language for the deaf?
Bus Station
Tønsberg
Norway
Overheard by: Håkon
